itsthelore
Lore provides a deterministic context layer for coding agents by storing requirements, decisions, and designs as typed Markdown in the repository to prevent agents from re-litigating settled decisions.
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Wayfinder Router
LLM Prompt Router for Python
Lore (rac-core)
Git Knowledge MCP for Agents
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Products & Services
An open-source engine for managing product requirements, decisions, and designs as typed Markdown artifacts that can be served to coding agents via MCP.
A CLI tool for deterministic routing of LLM queries between local models (e.g., Ollama) and hosted models (e.g., Claude, GPT-4).
An extension that provides grounded context from the RAC corpus directly within the IDE.
A GitHub Action that gates pull requests based on the health and validity of the RAC corpus.
Market Position
Lore differentiates itself by providing a deterministic, non-AI-based context layer that relies on explicitly recorded team knowledge (Requirements as Code) rather than vector search or memory layers (like Mem0 or Greptile).
Leadership
Founders
Tom Ballard
Technical Product Manager in Fixed Income trading; creator of the 'Requirements as Code' (RAC) engine.
Executive Team
Tom Ballard
Founder & Lead Developer
Technical PM with a background in Fixed Income trading software.
Founding Story
Lore was created to solve the problem of coding agents reintroducing rejected approaches or rebuilding deliberately removed features by providing them with a 'lore' of recorded team decisions (ADRs) and requirements.
Business Model
Revenue Model
Free and open-source (Apache 2.0). Currently a side project by the creator.
Target Markets
- Architecture Decision Records (ADRs) grounding
- Preventing agent re-litigation of settled product decisions
- Automated pull request reviews based on product requirements
- Grounding coding agents in team-specific roadmaps and designs